Mikko’s research topics at Nanyang Technological University

Keywords:

telepresence, presence, social presence, copresence, social media, mobile computing, wearable computing.

Mobile social telepresence

In this student project we studied the role of telepresence, social presence and copresence and develop a qualitative approach for evaluating social telepresence in mobile context. Our approach aims to meet the need of rapidly growing industries of mixed reality, social media, video broadcasting services and wearable devices.

International conference papers:

Samantha Vu, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Mikko Rissanen, Natalie Pang, Schubert Foo. A real-time video summarizing service for community-contributed contents of real-life events. In: Proceedings of The 5th International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2013), Venice, Italy, April 21-26, 2013, pp. 29-33. IARIA.

Samantha Vu, Mikko J. Rissanen, Natalie Pang and Schubert Foo. Towards evaluating social telepresence in mobile context. In: Proceedings of the 11th ACM Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry (VRCAI), Singapore, December 2-4, 2012, pp. 85-78. ACM SIGGRAPH. DOI: 10.1145/2407516.2407539

Sources of inspiration:

This research topic was inspired by social and co-presence questionnaires of Frank Biocca et al. (Toward a more robust theory and measure of social presence: Review and suggested criteria) and the challenges presented by Wagner, Jacucci, Kuutti et al. (On the role of presence in mixed reality).